Rolling-mill



(No Model.)

B. SAMUEL.

ROLLING MILL.

Patented Dec. 9, 1884.

' suggest themselves to expert mechanics.

llnrrn S EDWARD SAMUEL, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

ROLLING-MILL.

fiPEGIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 309,100, datedDecember 9, 1884.

Application filed March 17, 1884. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD SAMUEL, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certainImprovements in Rolling Mills, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention consists of mechanism which is fully described hereinafter,and which is applied to the feed apron or table of arolling mill for thetemporary support of a pile or bloom so far above the said apron ortable that the peel or bar on which the pile has been conveyed from thefurnace can be readily withdrawn from beneath the said pile, which isthen lowered, so as to be supported solely on the apron or table, fromwhich it passes to the rolls.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional view of part of ar0l1ing-mill, illustrating the application of my invention thereto; Fig.2, a transverse section of part of Fig. 1 on the line 1 2; Fig. 3, adetached perspective view of the pile-supporter, and Fig. 4 a viewshowing a modification of my invention.

A A A are three rolls, and A part of one of the housings of therollingmill, in front of which is the apron, fore-plate, ortable B,supported in the manner shown or in any other convenient manner. Theapron or table is preferably composed of a series of rolls or disks, (Z,suitably connected together and driven, thus passing to the rolls thebloom or pile transferred to the apron or table from the peel or bar bythe device forming the subject J of my invention.

This device is a pile-supporter, D, which consists of a plate havingribs, fingers, or pro jections 6, adapted to openings in the table orapron, but free from contact therewith. In Figs. 1, 2, and 3 thissupporter is combined with and forms part of a plunger or piston, f,adapted to a cylinder, 71, so that liquids under pressure or steam maybe used for raising the pile-supporter; but many different appliancesfor operating the said supporter will readily In Fig. 4, for instance, Ihave shown the application of an ordinary lever to the supporter, thelatter being attached to or forming part of a bar, m, adapted to guidesin a standard, N, to which the lever is pivoted, the short arm of thesaid lever projecting into a slot in the bar. On depressing the long armof the lever the bar m and supporter can be raised, and on releasing thelever the supporter will descend partly by its own gravity and that ofits adjuncts, and partly by the weight of the p1le or bloom which hasbeen deposited on the projections of the elevated supporter. In thepresent instance the ribs or projections e e of the pile-supporter passbetween disks or rollers of the apron or table; but in place of the ribsthe supporter may have pins to pass through openings in the apron ortable; but whatever system of projections may be used on the supporter,they must be far enough apart to admit between them the end of the peelWV, by which the pile or bloom is conveyed from the furnace to the apronor table B. Before this takes place, however, the pilesupporter is sofar raised that the upper ends of its projections will be above theupper surface of the apron or table, as shown in Figs. 1'

and 2, so that the operator can introduce the peel betweentheprojections of the supporter, and after depositing the pile thereoncan at once withdraw the peel, after which the supporter maybe lowereduntil the pile is in contact with the apron or table, when the said pilecan be directed on the latter to the rolls.

The supporter D may be fixed and the apron B raised and lowered toeffect the same result, or the apron and supporter both may be movable;but the construction shown is preferred.

I claim as my invention- The combination of a rolling-mill and an apronor table, B, with the pile or bloom sup port D and its projections 6,arranged far enough apart to admit a peel between them, and withmechanism for raising and lowering the said support, as set forth.

In testimony whereofl have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDWD. SAMUEL.

WVitnesses:

HENRY D. WHELDON, WILLIAM SELFRIDGE.

